Write Now app good for
Do you miss "Note Pad" from your old Palm? Ive tried a lot of the other handwriting apps. This one is most like what I was used to on my Tungsten. Simple, fast, accurate. The offset touch choices are a welcome feature. Its more money than most of the other finger writing apps, but well worth the extra dollar or two!
I needed to find an app that works great with an optional iPod stylus (capacitive) because as a deaf guy, I often ask others to write notes. Including people unfamiliar with iPod. This one is more fumble resistant with few onscreen button clutter for this purpose.
when I switche from palm to ipod touch the handwriting pad was missing and felt I should have never switched. Bought this because it is the only app that acts almost the same except better. It has offset features colours and so much more. I use is for everythig to jot down quick notes, ideas, and best of all phone #,s until I can transfer them to my phone book. Never lost a phone number that way. Keep up the great work.
Thats exactly what I need! It would be even better if one page would be endless lenght wise. Can you also add the option of "not lined" page. Even with all the new one that just came out for "back to school" this app is still the best and simplest. Great job!
Have had this app from the first Ipod I have owned 5 years ago! Have tried other similar writing apps but always come back to this one. Flawless....really since ios8 update many issues of freezing. Hope there is an update soon otherwise....delete!!
It took awhile for me to write so I can read it later, but it is a great app! It is cool to always have pen and paper available
Some bad moments
Its alright and I am sure it will improve as time passes . Unfortunately , I have not used as much as I hoped I would .
omg i like accidentally bought this...for 3$!!!! and i hatee itt...my mom is not gonna be happy. this is a very sucky app..dont buy.
Simple, direct, limited.
I also like the ability to offset the line from the finger
Should be a 3-star at least, but . . .
1. The distance of offset is REALLY large when it is set above and to the left (for right handers. So its VERY hard getting letters and words to align.
2. To erase, youve got to drop into a submenu and choose the eraser size. Then you have to tap on the tools menu again and select a line size/color to go back to writing. Why not just keep the tool size defaulting to whichever choice you last made? Then just tap on an eraser or pen icon on the screen to start erasing or writing.
3. The BIGGEST problem that I find is that the touch sensitivity of the application is not good. I found it very difficult getting the letters to come out the way I wanted, even with a stylus. The letters tend to be blocky and not curved smoothly. Even getting the writing to align on the notepad is difficult. I really wonder how they got the sample writing in the screenshots done. But even in the samples, you can see that the writing looks as if an elementary school kid just learning longhand did the writing. Its the app, which wont smooth out the curves of the writing.
After I got Notes Plus for the iPad and found that having the ability to jot notes down quickly by hand wherever you want to on a blank page is very useful, I wanted the same kind of thing for the iPhone, which I carry with me all the time.
But this app is rather weak because of the interface design and the difficulty with getting the lines to come out how and where you want them.
I did not know there was a free lite version. I should have tried that first.
How do you change the display to match that shown on the iTunes app? On my iPhone 4S, its just one page after another.The app would be even more useful if it had a search function and if you could rearrange the pages yourself. As it is, it is an easy way to jot something down, without having to use the keyboard.
Lite version worked great, but app locks up with my new phone. Same with full version
Review update 10/13/14
It’s now been four years since my last review. The company never responded in all that time so I have little hope that they will fix a major bug introduced by IOS 8.0--the program stopped functioning altogether.
Review of 6/6/10
This is a necessary addition to the iPhone apps. If I want to scribble something down quickly (somebodys phone number, a reminder) the keyboard is too cumbersome to bother with. I recently switched over from my late unlamented Palm Pilot but the most valuable program for me on the Palm was Bug Me. It was somewhat similar to Write Now in that I could jot down quick notes about things I had to do. What made "Bug Me" invaluable was that I could set a timer which would cause the note to appear, with an alarm, at any time in the future: minutes, hours, days, even years--and the alarm would continue to beep until I decided to do something about it. Such a feature would turn "Write Now" into the most valuable application in the iTunes store. Apple offers nothing comparable.
Unfortunately, I made these suggestions to the "Write Now" people last December. I have not heard from them, and there have been no corresponding changes made to the app., so the company seems largely unresponsive to customer input.
